Morris Street School
supported by parents

Published 7:00 pm, Saturday, January 8, 2005

We have 13 elementary schools. The people who work in our schools go above and beyond the call of duty. I am the proud mom of three Danbury public school students.

The parents at Morris Street School decided to band together as a community and support their school. Obviously, they felt a great deal of trust in the leadership, even though you do not.

The way No Child Left Behind works now is if you come into this country, you are required to take the Connecticut Mastery Test. Guess what? It's only in English. So if you do not understand the language, you're probably not going to do very well.

Did you also know that children with disabilities are required to take this same test - even though their level of understanding is at a much lower level?

Factoring all this in, it's not a "one size fits all" solution. By the time NCLB is tweaked, only 6 percent of the schools will be passing with the criteria that the government is looking for.

I hope that in the future, Ridgefield's public schools don't ever receive a "in need of improvement" finding. Where will they go?

Considering that Ridgefield doesn't offer any type of program for the under wealthy and, as a town, refuses to house the homeless, you probably don't have to worry yourself about these issues either.

Feel free to continue to criticize from your quaint little town, knowing that you are quite happy to employ these same people (who, by the way, have children that attend our schools).

Instead, you might want to attend one of our Board of Education meetings to find out exactly what we've been up to.